[QUOTE=Sugar's Mom;2821231]I keep ALL my breeding dogs, male and female, on dry puppy food all the time. i also free fed. When my girl is going into her last month, I add a couple of meals a day of wet puppy food. The last two weeks, I add a tablespoon of cottage cheese once a day. I didn't do that with my last litter and had disastrous results with the mama so I am back to the old tried and true method for me. There are people that don't agree but it is what has worked for me so I'm sticking to it.
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Agree completely.... What ever you feed mom is what the puppies will need to transition to once weened.... So, find a really good quality puppy food and keep her on that... It seems to aid in digestion when the puppies begin eating it (on a molecular level the food formula is passed through the milk)....
Be careful with calcium supplements as calcuim is funny in the way it aids in whelping... If the body assumes calcium will be provided at high levels, it will inhibit ability of the body to naturally increase production to produce contractions... The cottage cheese is just enough to give a bit of increased calcium plus enzymes that help out....